Word: austin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...netherlands of Currier House, the following poster was spotted: "The U.C. touched me. I don't know what to do. Kick corruption in the face. Vote Austin So." Um, touching and kicking are not words we usually associate with the U.C., but hey, whatever floats your boat...
...course, there's a contradiction inherent in Linklater's project of filming a bunch of nothing much and presenting it as an object for hedonistic consumption: having been filmed it ceases to be nothing much. Thus his 1990 low-budget cult film "Slacker," which shows some aimless people in Austin doing whatever, has become an emblem of "Generation X," and Linklater its ingenuously reluctant spokesperson. How ironic, since the message of his movie and of Douglas Coupland's book was that there's not that much to say, or for that matter to do or to think. And how even...
...Austin W. So '96, a member of the KoreanStudents Association who worked on the ethnicstudies effort, said he did not expect to seequick results. "There has been a lot of progressmade," So said. "I didn't expect Harvard with itslong-standing traditions to change overnight...
...this possible? Because, say the professionals, deciphering glyphs depends as much on intuition and instinct as it does on knowledge of a given writing system. Insight can strike like lightning. Says Schele, now an art historian at the University of Texas at Austin: "These moments of clarity are just extraordinary. The greatest thrills of my career came in those moments when the inscription becomes clear and we suddenly understand the humans who created this legacy for the first time...
...this year the price war has claimed as many as two dozen firms, including CompuAdd Computer, a big mail-order firm based in Austin, Texas, that filed for bankruptcy in June, and Everex Systems Inc., a PC manufacturer located in Fremont, California. It has also left many others gravely wounded. Dell Computer is expected to report losses of $68 million this week, its first quarterly deficit ever. Ironically, Dell, which built a $2 billion-a-year business by selling cheap, reliable computers by mail, is being done in by copycat mail-order firms offering bigger discounts...